Maybe you’ve heard of “vino and vinyasa,” in which yoga practitioners get together for yoga and a glass of wine or two. Well, Little Rock’s Rebel Kettle Brewing Co. is hosting its own take on the yoga and adult beverage concept: Beer Yoga.
The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at the craft brewery and restaurant at 822 E. Sixth St., and Valerie Talburt, the yoga instructor who’ll be teaching the class, says she and Rebel Kettle have been “blown away” by the response. “I knew it would be pretty good,” Talburt told Whispers. “But it’s pretty damn good.”
Talburt, who lives in Little Rock and works in Conway as an emergency room nurse, says she approached the brewery about the class. “They liked it and ran with it.”
Beer yoga is a “thing” in other enlightened locales — Germany, Australia, the West Coast of the U.S., Colorado — Talburt says, and now we’ll see if it becomes a thing here. The Denver Post reported last year that brewhouse yoga was “a national trend that focuses on attracting new people to the discipline — including men.”
On Rebel Kettle’s Facebook page, 71 people have said they’re going and another 640 have said they’re interested as of press time. Talburt, who came to Little Rock from New Orleans and has been living here for about a year, is planning on weekly classes. The classes cost $10, which buys one beer and instruction. Attendees are asked to bring their own yoga mat and towel.
Visitors can grab their beers during or after class, Talburt said. “It will be a basic vinyasa, all levels kind of class, but I will incorporate beer breaks and a pose or two during class that will incorporate holding the beer,” she said. “Just usual yoga but with beer incorporated.”